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POLLAROCRACY
An ArrLrican Story
If A SEW HAND
Itiiitratcd by Frank Vcr Beck CcpjriEhtcd by THIotson Sen for Tee GAzerrr
lAlTER 21 DOLLAROCIUCT
0 i ord cetliinks twere best to leave m
ji wn la this lower world to dwell
E t r t from worries plea e reprieve me
c < money granting me as well
Heine
A a leader in society Mrs Fotheringham
f incumbent upon hep to remain In
vn where she did the honors as of a
j r jean salon to the multitude of her
r ai s friends during the campaign
s t otheringham had planned givinea
er in honor of Mr Elarnaby and his
p i the countess Her efforts to
u e an absolutely matchless display and
i nge a faultless guestlist caused Mrs
I tneringhamagood many irritable days
n wakeful nights Mrs Fotheringham
h ui made up her mind to set society wild
envious admiration of her princely
i oiiwnal hor orientally gorgeous ban
Mrs Fotheringham was going to
t he height of her own fine taste for
0 for Mrs Fotheringhams money
n a nave to pay the bill
tut Mr Fotheringham had the
i o t uojectiou to make If he had he
u hue smothered it but he really had
i < > as not this the grand stroke of his
in vt after espousing to himself the
mus Now was his lucky moment
w 1 o thewisp which comes near us
i i ir life aud if we fail to grasp it
ii away in a huff Success makes
the fickle flirt can be won nine
s f ten by flourishinga brave show
i ii owed feathers in the nick of timo
v a wwelcd bait if jou want to catch
l h I hose and similar articles in his
a i reed Mr Fotheringham had ra
himself in his Wall street devotions
I sears so that he heartily ap
1 d hs wifes spirited bid for queen
As for himself tomorrow night
mae him king
I otieringhani hnd been doing hcrcu
wirU nee tho scheme was intrusted
hams He had floated the railroad
i ii the mines maneuvred the press
nrid tiie aldermen to grant the paving
urn tuckered with the politicians
u i he speculating imblie and won
av tin lnt liuancicr in the laud The
r ail in his kingly progress would
possession of millions of dollars was any
guarantee of statesmanlike qualities to
w hich he answered
Certainly not further than they imply
the ability to take and to kcep
Then I fail to see why mere money is
made so much of in your political and social
life in this republic
Vour ladyship ho replied oratorically
we hold that every man is entitled to a
fair field in the pursuit of happiness He
has the liberty to get all the money ho can
lie is on equality with the government itself
and is free to fraternize with his brother
millionaires
On an equality with the government
Certainly mv lady We speak of a
fiftyhorsepowerengiue Very wejl let us
call the government a fiftymilliondollar
power engine If I possess fifty millions I
am and have a right to be as strong an en
gine as the government
To this Mr Fotheringham added the
firactical application impressing it upon
ler ladyship that the owner of o0C00000
can do and should do his very utmost as a
true patriot to protect the citizens against
top cruelties of competition and the meddle
some interference of commercial law
It all seems very strange to me said
her ladyship but I begin to fancy demo
cracy has more meanings than one
My lady the most perfect system has
its defects Observe this prawn on my
fork your ladyship will find them excel
lent it has a head and a tail but how
beautifully it makes ends meet So jou
in England have your Aristocracy and vour
Plebeians and we have our Dollarocracy
and our Mobocrucy With you the ends
dont meet with us they do and so we
prosper
A short time before the company broke
up Blarnaby had observed Blobbo in
earnest con versation with Lady Ossulstone
He concealed his displeasureif he felt
any for the time but happening to meet
lilobbe in a corridor afterwards ho re
marked to him
My lady is a charming woman is she
notWhat
What do you mean replied Blobbe
coldly
DAMN TOUT rTEs
i > nt regal magnificence that
1 T > i rigsociety t s knees in homage
1 11 tins Mr Fotherinsrhani and Mrs
iiprnarhantwereasreed it was on the
i us that they differed
I > Jeiir Mortimer its my treat Ill
1 i < tst whoever I like
vh darling Wilhelmina so you shall if
> wi be icasonable enough to like
r I wish All these little difliculties
r > r it of business settle in the twinkling
< bllt
MW I wont be lectured again so
ht Why should I ask tho = e horrid
ii town creatures to sit at my table
n i tne Knickerbockers and the Vasters
li t
ut w hen Mr Fotheringhams marital
i on lrid done its perfect work Mrs
1 leniiciiam consented for sound tactical
i is ii to invite even the men of the
horn Scripture describes as cer
cms of Ilelin
Uini i ii auspicious evening came the
r < tie a streaked with roaring strings
irrijLs A crowd gathered around
i rate to quiz the boauty the talent the
o > ssand tho dollarfame of the guests
lie gpiitlpmen from the city hall regions
< ve uj > in open landaus sporting cigars
< > as white kids inkblack moustaches
i irds pomade and proud smiles
hn could picture tho scene in the noble
viom We spare our elves the igno
t > a l uilure in tho attempt by borrow
the intirestin story Tho Patriot
< z fi w das afterwards to which
in i pivfij an explanatory word on m
ii < ng it later on Enough to say here
hiftue banquet surpassed anything that
it ever been attempted even in the luxu
u metropfhs Natute was triuinph
i outstripped by art In the interview
rportcrs of the daily papers were priv
a to have nel day with Mr aud Mrs
iprneham on the dinner the lady
s iiimed up her verdict by saying that the
Vss herself declared she had never
n anything like it in Windsor castle and
< were more diamonds around the ta
han even the shah himself hadcxhib
Mr Fotheringham was more specific
kasked the reporters kindly to mention
tuT i he plates had cost rather over i3 per
ad the wnescost JTW per head the
rul decorations y r > J913 the band and
ipir refreshments 60y the extra help
t > tho new elass thinn plate etc all
Oiought from Europe specially WTOO and
isu favor given to eacn guest a gold
rouct set with rubies cost in all 2a00
lie ventured to think that these figures
iuld impart eloquence to their reports
lie thanked them for the honor of their
i lt and lunch would at once be served at
he same tabic with all its decorations just
ss they were last night
Around the board at the great function
i civic magnates dread po
utatcs of the press budding
rsidents American plutocrats British
istocrats Tiie Rev Dr Suywell
unctificd the proceedings He thanked the
ord in uuctuous accents for endowing his
servants our host and helpmeet with tho
race and the means for feasting our souls
iid bodies on the rich and savory bounties
of Providence
We shall only be able to pick up here and
here a few broken echoes of tae Babelisb
uabble
I assure your ladyship says Mr Foth
rrinrham that nothing could be betterfor
he interests of tho peoplo than that their
iAiUective capital should ba in the hands of
those who best know how to protect it and
In England I believe the aristocracy con
ilder the few are wiser than the many
riy of us do Mr Fotheringham but
we dont approve of plutocracy You
Americans aro all so fearfully rich we
shall have to set you the old English fashion
ef being poor and content and proud of it
I wish we oldfashioned Americans had
the courage to set you the example said
Miss Bennison to Sir John but the day is
romlng I trust
All this harum scsrum talk against
trusts is sheer fudee shouted Mr Blarn
iby from across the table having heard
some one deprecate their existence trusts
are blessinfs in diseuise
And so are we lawyers said Blohbe
with chuckle but the laity arc all unbe
lievers when we say so
Lady Ossulstone directed her remarks to
Blarnaby jwintdly asking whether the
J
You devote yourself more to her pleas
ure than to my interests it would seem
Blobbe crow red with passion
Again what do mean sir
1 mctiii you have thrown awaya hundred
opportunities this night of making mo solid
with wavering friends if friends said
Blavnaby with a bitter impressiveness
You insiiiuat treachery
I remonstrate with kalfheartedness
Damn yourejes Blobbe looked apo
plectic
Damn your diplomacy retorted the
other cuttingly
Blobbe gave a scornful laugh Jealous
a ever first over a speech aud then over a
woman Bah
Blarnaby glared and began a reply Mr
Sebag happened to come that way whcre
upon Blarnaby suavely offered the old
gentleman his arm and led him to the coat
room
The dailies had full accounts of the ban
quet A few das later the Patriot came
out with this
DIVES AT nOME
So this is Dives home It looks as though
It might be where they hold the waiwork
show
These can en fruits these millinery sprigs
And curly twigs and flowery Irilllgigs
That sprawl all over these stone walls outside
What They cost thousandsl Theye the
owners pride
The sculpwork of great Gaudy de la Chiselle
Well I think Elaeree in stones a lizzie
And outside a mere street house its a waste
Of course theres no accounting for queer taste
They say it Imitates the palace built
Uy a newcomer here Count Von der Gildt
Its fctyle is ChineeGoihicDutchItococo
rom plans by that great architect Hugh Jokol
The stones arc toned with priceless carmine
peach
A twentydollar coins inlaid in each
That silver tablet tells the total cost
The entrance hall with cameos is embossd
Tho locks are watchlike5eweled in their holes
Rare diamonds stud the box that holds the coals
The parlors papered with SlOOO bills
The diningroom with postage stamps and
frills
Of antique lace are borderd round each duster
Which when once used is burntl And what a
cluster
o real rubles on the chandelier
Theres quite a panic setting in I hear
In Macs Four Hundred who are overawed
For fear theyll have to write up Icbabod
And cease competing in this high gentility
Because alas they lack the Vanderbilityl
Now 1 go in why bhould I feel so quivery J
To see these footmen in shamroyal livery
My What a perfect wilderness of lilies
Violets roses orchids daffodillies I
They buy tteso plants hich in the tropics
grow
Because they make the costliest kind of show
These Gobelin tapestries that coatof mail
were bought at Princess DeminondofTs sale
That picture cost a million for yon know
The artist starved to death some years ago
This mound of floral pieces monstrous
grand
Conceals tho latest Spanish Gypsy hand
Why on a foreign band this ranks bestowed
O native talents neter a la mods
This Is the diningroom behold tho tablet
These English rabbitpies were brouiht by
cable
See that Pagoda ttasdin t a feet high
THE GAZETTE FT WORTH TEXAS SUNDAY OCTOBER 11
A centf rriece which can the world defy
It toot the chef wellnigh three weeks to rear
His salarys ten thousand dols a year
Of what and why did he the thing create
Its only sugar tat itpjoves how great
And glorious are onr mighty people who
Can whip the world in everything we do
Dye see this pheasant pie A work of art
It stands on a wax plateau with rampart
Of real antlerhorns impaling quails
The pies a bridge beneath it golden whales
Swim in a champagne stream oer these as
guards
A pair of real rabbits playing cards
So here this is a real Chicago ham
Disguised in pure gold leaf from Amsterdam
Sprinkled with opals oer which stiver Cupids
Hoverwlth hungry eyes lite helpless stupidsl
The thick ends borne by iory Hercules
Draped for this once in old lace to his knees
And heres a salmon though youd scarcely
know it
Togad in purple lite an ancient poet
A silver garland girds his phosphory head
As Xeptune hooks him with a pearlstrung
thread
Thank God we live in truly blessed times
When genius gets a golden staff my how it
climbs
Whether the appearance of these lines in
that particular number Qf the Patriot was
accidental or by design remains to be seen
Certain it was that certain persons of high
importance felt vastly annoyed and did not
hesitate to say so in society One estimable
gentleman was heard to say it was a hog
gisUitijok and would be remembered at
therj attime Thedinner was a splen
did success That is to say it read well in
the morning papers The fine art of giving
a dinner is one thing and that of dining is
quite another You may go to dine or you
go to a dinner The two functions must
not lightly be confounded If one or two of
the downtown contingent whispered to
each other that theyhad had many a better
good time iu the snug corner room of a
certain oldfashioned hostelry it only indi
cated their acquaintance with what consti
tutes the diningroom bliss of your heaven
born redeemers of society from the destest
able simplicity of our grandfathers True
a little coterie of bon virants drifted to
gether in the alcove behind the lifesize
gilded Venus long enough to pass a unani
mous resolution that expensive as were tho
winebrands and rare the dainties furn
ished the dinner fell short of the glories of
many a redletter feast they had enjoyed
togetherunder the mahogany of Uncle Sam
Ward of blessed memory Bt what of
that At the board of that genial table
cloth artiste and unsuspected poet on paper
they had only reveled in a feast of reason
aud a flow of soul and bowl
whereas hero they had been wafted
into tho upper regions where they
could rub shoulders with the higher pow
ers and breathe the atmosphere of gentility
in excelsis The true criterion is not what
one cats and enjoys but what one sees and
envies Shall we ever return repentant
to the old ways the good old ways of our
wiser forefathers i The days of sturdy
men buxom dames and bonny ruddy
cheeked lassies Days when hunger was
the fashionable sauce exercise the health
ful appetizer plain fare tho sufficient ban
quet of the scnsibe and good diges
tion kept the doctor at long arms
length Days when plaingoing folk gloried
in honest simplicity and scorned to ape tho
Frenchified fripperies of foreigners Days
when strong heads reigned over strong
bodies so that if there was overindulgence
iu table vices it was the sinning of men as
men and not as now of milksops and
finicky fancy nlbblers The ago of chiv
alry has gone taking with it the migbty
threebottlo men of old and 4the jovial
wielder of carving knifo and fork who
could tackle a lordly sirloin and give a good
account of suet dumpltugs galore Our
fathers sang O the Roast Beef of Old Eng
land and made the roof tree rattle with
their lusty chorus and we slimshanked
concave we we pipe a feeble dirge to the
glories of the daSs that were
TO MY DISXElt
At last my more than bosom friend
The time has come to tell thee plainly
Our ways must either mend or end
I must forswear thee not profanely
Sly medico who tracks my ills
Prescribes a course of dietetics
Or else a menu made of pills
And choice emetics
Can I forget the happy years
We have been been companions dally
How oft the vintage of my tears
Thoust changed to wine of joy so gaily
Andbraced me up to sprightlmes
When Ive been qualmy quaky quivery
And kept me always hearty Yes
But now Im lhery
After sweet houis with these at Del
Ite waltzed with fair Columbias daughters
Xow I must crawl with heavy swells
And woo those nasty foreign waters
The wight who at Love s banquet its
Heaps tingling cardiacpangs internal
My love for thee breeds heariburu tits
And gout infernal
Thy solace kept my soul serene
l air temperance none could ere deny us
But since tlioutnmperdst with my spleen
Im Just the opposite of pieom
Tempted by thee I toyed with weets
And fooled with condlmental tickle
Poured piccalilli on my meats
Xow Im the pickle
Lifes roseate tint thou turnst to bine
Thy lurrments lead unto perdition
Henceforth thy pleasures Ill eschew
And chew the cud of late contrition
ThP holy hermits did not faint
They throve on water and a biscuit
Suppose their food makes me a saintl
I guess Ill risk it
111 cast before Dyspepsias shrine
My pet unprotltable vices
Farewell dear dainties dearer wine
Farewell ye dire delusive ices
Old friend een now 1 feel thy spell
Though for expansive bliss thy oebtor
It grieves me less to say Farewell
For Ill faro better
The details are borrowed from a newspaptr
report of a Fifth avenue banquet
TO EE COXTJSUZD
SHAKSPEARES TOMB
Thoughts Induced by a Visit to
the Last Resting Place
OF THE IMMORTAL BARD
House Where He wai Barn Site of the
House Where He LlTed at sfew Place
Church Where He U Hurled
Anu Hathaway Cottage
Special Correspondence of the Gazette
SruiTroEDosAvoK Sept CO If thero
shall ever appear a true and comprehensive
Narrative of Dreams I think it will be
found that one of the most frequently re
curring experiences of dreamers is that
they seem to lack the power of close and
genial companionship with tho voiceless
personages whom thoy meet in sleep iXb
matter how close may be the bonds with
the same personages in waking hours No
matter how vivid th e apparent reality of
act and doing in dreamland Thero is ever
a filmy veil of uurecognition even where
recognition seems most complete and at
wakening there is always the saddening
longing to have seen clearer to have got
closer and to have more firmly trod or
clasped the outstretched hand
Something akin to this tender feeling of
unrest and vague consciousness of unf lilflll
ment possesses you in this sweet old town
of StratfordonAvon From first to last
the entire experience is tinged with the
nature and wrought in the very tissue of
dreams It has been your dream to some
time know this greatest of all literary
shrines While you are within its strango
influence you wander and dream as in the
actual region of dreams among dreamborn
folk who aro themselves dreaming within
the dream After you turn away all that
you can possibly recall seems to have had
its orign in some
rAROFP AGE OP DBEAM8
If you cotn to this shrine by railway and
its interminable chanees giving yon
glimpses of all sorts of midland towns
from ancient Warwick with its stately bat
tlements to Leamington with its modern
glitter yon have reached a pleasing state
of confusion not remota from the vagaries
of dreams If you have come to the place
on the box of ono of those famous coaches
which spin to various points of inter
est throughout the shire you will have
seen in a few hours a countless suc
cession of the most beautiful aud dreamful
countryside pictures in England And if
you should come on foot for the eleven
miles as I did along tho hard white high
wayfrom Warwick underneath an almost
unbroken archway of elms through the
crisp ct drowsy atmosphere of an Eng
lish midland antumnal morning there is
still surrounding you the glamor of bo
witching unreality you cannot and would
not dispel
Tramping over this witching way what
a flood of historic memories sweops in with
the breath of the rosy morning 1 Here upon
this noble eminence with historic Clopton
house to tho right and Hampton Lucy to
the left beneath the arching elms is caught
tho first glimpso of the valley of the
Avon A hundred lesser gentle
verdureclad eminences rise and fall as
if with tho throbbing of natures heart
in its fair far sweep From away in the
northeast winds a thread of silver It
broadens as it disappears and reappears in
its course towards the Severn and is finally
lost completely where above a mass of
elms and limes and redtiled roofs rises a
slender spire The silvery thread is the
Avm The mass of elms and limes and red
tiled roofs is Stratford The slender spire
of its Holy Trinity church mails the tomb
and shrine of
tux worlds immoktal rurD
Loitering here the old days places and
stirring scenes fit quickly into the wide
horizon rim The three spires of ancient
Coventry can almost be seen not for away
to the north Coventry with its legends of
pilgrimages and the deed of fair Godiva
which brought freedom from the oppres
sion of her fierce grim lord to the peo
ple of her wellbeloved town The
grand ruin of Kenilworth with its mem
ories of jousts tournaments and revelries
of Elizabeth and her favorites are nearer
still Gray old Warwick with its walls
still as mighty as in the furious times of
tho third Henry is just behind you to the
north Over to the west Evesham and
Tcwksbury recall a grewsome tale Only
fifteen miles to the north just at the edge
battle
of Oxfordshire tho first great be
tween the kings and parliamentary forces
was fought in tho 17th century at Edgo
Hill Not far away in Northamptonshire
is Fotheringay notably connected with the
lives and fates of princes and famous and
infamous as the place of execution of Mary
Jueen of Scots
Below Edgo Hill is Banbury of cherished
nursery rhyme memory to whoso tooih
soinc cheese Shakespeare likened Falstaff
for his rich and unctuous habit Itjis but a
few miles away just over thero in North
ampton beyond the ivyhid Kugby of Tom
Browns School Days that the Avon
springs from the hills about Naseby
where Cromwell and Fairfax drove the
hapless Charles from his throno and king
dom Sixtyfour great seats with their
castles or halls from Allesley park
to Wraxall House besides many fine ca
thedrals and superb monastic and castle
ruins cluster close within the shire The
chimneys and minaretcd turrets of one rise
above primeval trees down thero to tho
iast in tho dreamful Avon valley They
mark old Cbarlecote scene of a certain
rhyming poachers escapade And this
same Charlecote once stood in the greatest
ot all British forosts the forest of Arden
whose name and fame
CVX NEVER GROW OLD
so long as tho fair and tender Rosalind and
all tho other winsome brood in As You
Like It shall repeat their wise and won
drous human truths to those who own and
love the English thought and tongue
As you descend into the old town every
thing is strangely still On tho way you
see a few blackbirds hopping sagely among
the stubble close to the sheltering hedge
Here and there a weary peasant that has
escaped tho annual autumnal slaughter
whisks into the road trots along its grassy
border for a little and then as suddenly
and silently disappears Tho kine
are sleepily chewing their cuds
against tho farm house byres
A few stooks of lategathered graiu are
huddled in the little fields The smoke as
cends faintly from the chimneys of cottage
and hall They aro late risers these En
glish folk and tho low sun is far up in its
slender arc before dwellers give sign of be
ing astir Even the sable rooks that haunt
the dead trees and high wide chimneys of
ancient demesnes rise sluggishly from
their hiding wheel lazily about it and set
tle down quietly again not yet ready to
unloose
THEIR SAUCY CHATTEKISG TOS0UE5
You know as everybody knows when
vou have come to tho little closelyhedged
tiled houses where the open highway has
merged into a long picturesque though
humble street that were you to remain
in Stratford for a months timo thero
could bo only just tho half dozen places
immediately identified with Shakespeare
to visit the houso where ho was born
tho vacant site of the houso where he
lived at New Place tho church where he is
buried Ann Hathaways cottage and tho
memorial fountain and theater And while
j ou could sco these in an hours timo tho
impulse now that they are so near your
ken is to avoid them to wander away
through the town for a little at first and
shaking off the dreamful captivity of it all
to try and come back to those objects and
places one by one with increased attitude
and power of recognition and companion
ship
You are now in the center of Stratford
on High street You suddenly recall the
curious fact that in all the hundreds or
English towns you have visited you have
always found a High street and that every
place of interest to be seen as at Stratford
is only a few moments walk from every
other place off or on this old familiar High
street Here is an open space the ancient
ilercato square Jagged ziezag thor
oughfares lead to it from outlying pictur
esque spots and quarters All about arc
halftimbered houses projecting story over
story into the marketplace and you won
der how long before from sheer age they
will tumble red roofs first over into the
clean cool square below Quaint shops
just now opening are pinched in between
staid old mansions
BANDBOXES OP IXNS
scores of them each striving to outdo tho
other in curious name or escutcheon sug
gestive of the one memory of the slumben
old town speck the gray facades with gilt
and color
Down ono of these streets old Henley
street through whose windings a glimpse
of the upland is caught you know is to be
found the house of all others in Stratford
But you turn in the opposite direction
You pass an ancient inn named for tho
bard Each of its rooms is given the name
of some one of the characters he created
Servants are higglehaggling with a rosy
faced huckster over the price of vegetables
on its comfortable porch Old stone houses
with the oldest of peaks gables and pent
houses over huge oaken doors are passed
At some old men and women aro nodding
even in these morning hours at the open
windows Soon there is a vista of trees
shutting out all beyond save a gray stone
porch Without knowledge of Stratford
topography you have come with unerring
instinct straight to Holy Trinity church and
gravoyard An ancient verger with snow
white hair is shuffling along the leaf
strewn pavement He pauses and with a
loud jangling of his husre keys he unlocks
the wicket then tho wide low oaken doors
and is shortly lost among tho shadows
within You steal shortly after him Some
where in the dim place the old man is
whistling as if for company in low tones
as becomes an old old man but somehow
it checks your impulse to enter and you
wander around and around the shadowy
shrine halting at last next the side of the
chancel nearest wcre you know that
Shakespeare lies You lay yoir hand
gently on tho cold gray stones as if grop
ing for the touch of a near but unseen
friend How long your reveryhas been
you know not but a tiny iconoclastic spar
row scratching among tho gravel at your
feet looks so quizzically into your face that
you
nCEBT ASHAMED AWAT
A few steps among the graves beneath
huge elms bring you to the river side for
the Avon he loved laves the sides of the
churchyard walls It is so still and silent
here you feel that the very spirit of the
stream is hushed in obeisance and rever
ence for the spot Its waters are passing
On the farther side are long lonesomo
meadows A few sheep are grazing there
Up the stream to the right above tho
masses of trees and tiles looms the huge
obese Memorial hall Ysu resent it as yen
have already turned away from the perky
white fountain iu melow eld High street
Everything modern here that seeks to me
morialize men or committees of today
through fantastic memorials to this very
sun of tho English race and tongue hurts
you with its brazen impertinence
You turn pass through the churchyard
and saunter along in the quiet of Mill
Lane At its end is a ramshackle mill no
body knows how many centuries old The
splash of the wheel has a drowsy sound
A footpath leads to a mossy wooden
bridge You cross this take to tho
meadows with the river church and town to
your left and cross tho fields to Shottery
Here is a typical English village criss
crossed with stono walls and hedges cut in
high bos patterns and brown with thatched
roofs so old that birds and mice use them
for nests while wild field flowers and
weeds grow luxuriously upon them In
stinctively you approach the oldest and
quaintest structure in Shottery Its gablo
overhangs the lane Its south side faces a
maze of vines aud flowers and four tiny
windows hooded by the thatching peep
over into the breere and bloom It is
AXS IIATIIAWAYS COTTAGE
A pleasant old woman whom you feel
must have known the maid and the man
hustles about shows you the interior the
ancient settle where the lovemaking
was done tho visitors book with its price
less autographs even the heirlooms of linen
more lasting than effigy or cenotaph of
stono tho whilo chatting cheerily as if the
lids of time always opened upon her as
upon a bright and stainless page But you
have not heard what was said The old
ladys words have blended with the autumn
voices without Tiie voices you have heard
came trembling down the silences of more
than threo hundred years and your heart
has thrilled unutterably because for a mo
ment so closo have come that day to this
thoso two to you
Back across the Avon over the grant
stoue bridge and a few minutes walk
brings you to humble Henley street There
i3 still the seeming of dreamfolk walking
about in the soft autumn air There aro
few of them and they seem either very
old or very young quaint old men and
granddams ruddy of face and white of hair
who seem to have stepped out of the olden
times to look around their former haunts
for a little and very quiet children with
demuro old ways You wonder if the influ
ence of so surprising a shrine goes this far
among Stratford dwellers or whether it is
the glamor of your own fancy This as
you btand before tho birthplace of Shake
speare a spruce enough structure since its
restoration with gabled porch an Eliza
bethan window in the next story and a
peaked dormer window outjutting trom tho
steeppitched roof above all with a pretty
gardeu at the sides and back It seems a
long timo before the jangling bell is an
swered Finally another beaming old lady
appears and you follow her silently within
Tnero is very little to see incommunicable
things to feci There are two rooms below
and two above One of the latter is a sort
of museum and you find little interest
hero In the other the bard was born
Which fact thrills you most power
fully that here first saw the light
of day the great revealcr of humanity to
men or that tho onco white wall is
black with the names of tho great and
michty of all lands and climes who have
come and reverently left these signs of
tribute to what was so immortally re
revealed
It is as though ono had for the first time
come into wondrous communion with them
all and it is now more than ever a dream
as you turn from the spot and by and by
awaken to the consciousness that you aro
but one of a hoide of pilgrims and are
again passing beneath
THE PORTAL OF HOLT TEIXITT CnCRCH
Yet how little is there for simply the eyes
to look upon the interior of a modest
church of tho Thirteenth Fourteenth and
Fifteenth centuries cruciform with cen
tral tower and spire and aisles to the nave
only a narrow chancel inclining strangely
to tho north ancient oaken pews with cur
iously carved misereres beneath a west
window representing the twelve apostles
and our Lords baptism a clerestory beau
tifully imposed on tho arches below a
north chancel window the gift of Ameri
cans illustrating from As You Like It
the Soven Ages of Man a few ancient
sodilia or priests seats an entablature of
stcao in which is set tho painted stone bust
of a pleasantrfaced man with twirled mus
tachios and slight pointed beard and be
low a grave with four lines of inscriptive
supplication that tho dust aud bones be
neath shall never bo disturbed by mortal
man Thi3 is alL Yot every day of every
year men and womeu Iu increasing num
bers como from the earths remotest
bounds to stand beside this silent but never
voiceless tomb
The day passes and the shadows lengthen
among the limes You shrink into a corner
beneath a protecting pillar and see still as
in a dream the motley throng from peasant
to prince como and go come aud go as if
tho great worldheart pushed its stromrcst
warmest most unfaltering pulsation here
The evening descends and tho last soft
footfall has recrossed the worn stone
threshold and passed like a whisper over
tho windstrewn limeleaves beyond The
ancient verger dons his hat and jangles his
keys Like a wraith of your own dreaming
self you pass swiftly to the chancel and
kneel in tho darkening old church beside
one grave for a moment alone
AT SnAKESPEARESTOHB
Once where a spray of apple bloom
Hung oer my garden wall
There came a iagrant oriole
To flood the music of its soul
Full in my openwindowed room
A fleck of gold with voice of lute
Within my casement swung
Mv own sweet prisoned singingbird
Whose tribute which the master stirred
Left it aghast and mute
Thus came his flight and canticle
Flooding Songs dawn with Day
Thus we athrill and tributestirred
Like my poor prisoned ringingbird
Falter lo edunib and still
Idcab I Waked
Subscribe for t
To become wise is to find out how little
you know
Philosophy lights no candle in the night
of death
The real king does not shrink from tha
crownof thorns
Selfconceit is a rope that the devil never
lets go of
Tho sweets of sin always leave a bitter
taste in the mouth
Dont try to kill a fly on your neighbors
head with a hammer
Peoplo who ride hobbies never pay much
attention to the scenery
Preaching that is aimed at the head hardly
ever strikes the heart
The man who can rejoice in tho midst of
his trials can rejoice everywhere
Suffering is a chariot drawn by horses
whose faces aro drawn toward heaven
When you pray for your preacher in
church dont do it with your eyes shut
If you love your enemies you can depend
upon it that the devil hates you
There is no bigger coward anywhere in
the world than the man who is afraid to do
right
Holding church entertainments for tho
purpose of raising money is the devils way
of helping the Lord
The greatest miracle ever wrought i3
when tha same love that holds heaven to
gether is born in tho sinners heart
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IN PETTICOATS
Politicians Slot Machines Bon
nets and Smugglers
MANS IDEA OF WOMANS WEAR
He is at Timet Unreasonable Women Can
Foot Illm nnd Tet lie i Not So Bad
After All Thats What One
Woman Thinks at Lean
Special Correspondence ot the Gazette
New York Oct You have probably
hover connected romance and flannel petti
coats The flauncl petticoat has seemed to
you tho very apotheosis of that which is
practical but that shows how much you
know
KOMAXCE IN FLAXXEL TETTICOATS
Flannel petticoats nre at present consid
ered tne most desirable of gifts from a fe
male Damon to her feminine Pythias Of
course the Damon has her special color
tho one in which her room is draped of
winch her paper is the proper hhado and
her wax corresponding in hue conse
quently her flannel petticoat harmonizes
It is really a thing of beauty A young
woman who had assumed as her favorite
hue that much admired shade of lavender
that is a favorite with tho Princess of
Wales had irit en her on her birthday a flan
nel petticoat that suggested mitigated woe
rather than anything else A small dog in
the family had died and for this reason
dull colors wero being worn but the skirt
itselfWAS
WAS SOJIETIUXtt TO DRtHM AHOCT
The upper part of it was made of laven
der flannel light in weight and as smooth
as possible The edge was a band or laven
der satin ribbon then came a row of laven
der black lace iuhertion then ono of the
ribbon and last of all a full frill of black
lace The baud around the waist was of
lavender silk and the ties in tho back with
an inchwide ribbon of the same color
Such a petticoat a > this would console a
woman even for tho death of the dog They
arc shown in white and pink pink and
black white and blue and black and white
Tho last is it must ba confessed a littlo
startling but anything that suggests tho
magpie combination is liked
THE POLITICIANS OWX llKOtDWAT
Were you ever a politician And doy
sco any use for their existence J Some po
littlo dot is dying with fever next door
young woman who can only count uin
j ears is ill with it just across tho s
and somebodys mother is so very ill with
it that it seems as if death will soon hover
over the household and the fault otall this
lies in the hands of the politicians Three
suinraors ago all New York wus dug Hpfo
let steam heaters go in The next sifflTmejjrf
it was redug to niako now pavetncufj wcl
now it is in un open condition that the cable
cars may traverse the fetreets and that the
population may die of fevers and low bick
nesses brought on by the frightful smcllW
j ou couldnt call them anything else that
arise from the depth of the street Y u >
know I wouldnt say one word if this was
done to help anybody but it isnt It is
simply done to put money in the pockets of
the politicians and we submit to it because
wo havent got a particle of independence irf
but simply expressive aud I would give all
tho money I possess to a little pickaninny
from down ole Virginia who would do a
song and dance act on the hat Politicians are
porhaps necessary so are thoso abominabio
beasts that inhabit beds and which are so
prettily called in London NorfolkHow
ards Hut isnt there some sort of pou dcr
that can do aw ay with the NorfolkHow
ards and tho politicians at the same time
Civil sorvice wasnt worth a cent and wo
hwe got to get something bettor than that
if we ever expect to point to New York city
as even a moderately clean place
WOMANS IEXLlIAVr VOU bMLGGLIXC
All women who are coming over from the
other sido are having a beautiful tin < s smug
gling i wish it to be distinctly understood
though I do believe in the Biblo tho Koran
tho Talmud and the Light of Asia I rc
gard smuggling as the one right that woman
as abovo all others A piece of lace is not
worth a raw of pins unless it has been care
fully put in a dress pocket and smiled past
the inspector A new diamond brooch has
no chat A unless its put on ones hair and
a hat worn over it Oh there may be pleas
ures on earth but there is nothing quite
compares with this As for the women in
spectors Id jump overboard before I would
let one of them touch me Just fancy the
way they would pull and haul your clothes
and ask if a frock that fits you liue a glove
is your own
WUEKE WOMEC LOOKS TiFST
Women should nor occupy political
offices The only offlco they really occupy
well and where they can stand is that just
in front of a lookincrglass with a mans
arm around them and their faces to tho
glass so they can sco just how they look
evon at that critical point when a man tells
you that ho loves you as he never loved any
woman before and you are willing to take
his word though you can still see theres a
smudge of powder on your nose
ulke ixnrxn is a iihite or a max
A brute of a man I can call him nothing
else has invented a machine by which
when you drop a penuy iu tho slot your age
is told Now who but a fool of a man
would ever do snch a thing as tliat He
would know no woman would ever gdt on
it unless she was quite certain it was out
of order and he might also know that no
man with any respect for himself would
get upon it unless ho had reached that
most fashionable a < re of fortyfour A man
is supposed to ba like a canvasback duck
not wortli a picayune unless ho is a littlo
high Tho man who made this machine is
a Doctor Somebody and tho only thing left
for him to do is to go to a colored aged wo
mans home for there they are so deadly
fond of telling you that they were ninety
nine four years ago that for once truth
would bo mighty and prevail
WHERE TRCTH STUONGIr PREVAILS
I know a woman who has been telling her
friends for several years that she was
twentysix somebody some mean cat of a
woman pot her on that thing telling her it
was a weighing machine and to her horror
she registered thirtyeight years Now
this sort of thing is going to bring trouble
in the family you know When a man
thinks he has been kissing twentysis its
rather a comedown for him to know that
he has been deluded and that the darling
of his heart is really thirtyeight Thats
where he is a gentleman donkey
ALT WOMEX CAX FOOL MCJf
He ought to credit a woman for her clev
erness and give her three or four extra
kisses because she could fool him and say
him a capital H and the other two letters
the next size There has never been a wo
man yet wno couldnt fool a man Ho may
have written tho constitution of indepen
dence be may have made thoMcKiniey
bill he maybe bo able to tell them whether
things are all wool or not he may bo sufll
ciently iervous to climb over ten women
while be goes out to get a drink but a small
innocent ignorant looking little girl can
provo to him that black is a lovely shade of
white and that though some people may
flatter him and tell him he is a great man
she dont say it in so many words because
she knows it so thoroughly
Ever since tha ti et
MOSES
everybody has known that park
at is not healthy yst we put
lard in nearly everything
An American Is known li
world over as
A Dyspeptic
and everv honest physician says
the eat is large
grease we j
lthe cause of it
which not only takes the place c
iard but is BETTtR tor cookin
purposes than either lard or bu
ter and ever so much cheaper
Its manufacture is a NEW DIS
COVERY that affects every houst
hold in the land
Ask your Grocer for Cottulene
and beware of imitations
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Manufactured only by
KFAIRBANKS CO
ST LOUIS MO
AfttraslnironebJ
suffered but UlUcM
vetfciip s aftcnf
Lsxiz GiGC Lil
Or Tor sale by I M WIIITSITT Co
Mention the Fort Worth Gazette
THE OLD DOCTORS
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LADIES AORlTE
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ti e < t by thooatiti cf wq uu tio utia
titwfn tlio OJ BOraffnS frjiixe mall y4
ifit 33 < yfiar liCl cot
xbturBcd long
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pvsa4e < k iwf
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centi lor a gUcil <
our bones In fact 1 think we have reautsgfc < Xr VfpkS tC01I7K8thSt St Loai K9
a point when after a while wo will regard
getting the bones under ground as the best
thing that could possibly happen I didnt
want to be steamheated tho old streets
were bad but they wore no worse than
thoso we how and as for the cable cars I
dont suppose they will over let a dog ride
in them so I am out of them
I1A1J DOE > XT IlKn 1OLITICIAXS
New York Just at present looks like a
country village with uu occasional large
hotel hero and there Women twist their
ankles trying to cross tho street small
babies tumblo in the mud in an effort to
learn how to walk and man lovely man
who is the only politician known to us oc
casionally droits his hat in the mud and
then I yearn for a choice collection of
words that are not really bad you know
Sent liv expwa ci arces prtpslLpn rrcetpt o
prcs lM per Bate Boot to iluthel mallol rree
BUAiiri iiEii3xiiiATH cof
ATIiAKTA GA
BOLD HV ALT 3HUGCIST3
favored in England for it gives them au
opportunity to say WtH you know Im
beginning to get quit old now and 1 dont
want people to say that I am dressing too
voung When a pair of briirht eyes look
right straight up into a masculine face and
the complexion which U as clear as cream
is visible and the man wonders if the cirl
is really in earnest or it she has any idci
how absolutely sweet and yoiiugslu does
look This is ono of the charmes of the art
of dressing Tho woman who is not afraid
to dress a little older than she is is tho
woman who is going to look joungforall
time Remember that I do not moan tho
girl who dresses like 1 dowdy but I mean
one who assurics the Ixinuet that is a tiny
bit matronly
juss idea or WOSIAN s weak
By the by dont you think that ninnk uil
in general is exttcmely careful about what
he thinks women ought to wear Do wc go
catvering around objecting to hissiockli gs
or asking whether ho wears garters ore it J
Do wc bother the lives out of ourselves Of
thinking whether his trousers had better
suspended by his hips or his shouldurs
do wo care whether tho ugly thinirs ua
wears under his trousers aro madoof wool
or castiron Certainly not Well he goes
to work and will lecture for two hours on
the e vil of the corset knowing nothing at
all about it
wiiex bcsties weiie wonx
ho would enter the family pulpit usually in
an extremely comfortable armchair and
dilate on the folly of the bustle on tho ugli
ness of tho bustle and tho general sinful
ness of the bustle Now that the bustle js
gone he is pitching into people for wearing
skirts that drag a woman down Ho
neednt bo so troubled about it AVomen
are not going to be dragged down unless
they w ant to They generally have a funny
littlo way of their own of getting what they
want and when they want it but petti
coats Just get a man talking about petti
coats from his standpoint andhe will argue
for two hours and then when jou quietly
say to him Do you think trousers should
take their place he rushes out of tha
room and says the more girls go to college
the less they know As for powder or
rouge and bang3 well ho regards them
both as inventions of the evil one
MIX XOr SO IJAD tFTElt Ait
Now w hat does man want a woman t
have He dont want her to have petticoat
ho dont want her to have corsets he dons
want her to have bustles he dont want her
to go without bustles he dont want her to
have false hair bangs or rouge and yet ha
wouldnt give up one of his rights to her to
save her souL
He nearly upset the Chilian question by
objecting to lovely woman wearing fouria
hard scarfs and its only because sha
would do it that ho has allowed her ha
puts it that way to wear a piquo waist
coat to accompany her new cloth jacket
Man is an animal who is never thoroughly
understood He can be flattered into
anything and yet one word to the wrong
and tho game is lost
Ho prefers to govern your woman friends
and is bitterly opposed to Miss Blank until
he has heard she has said something pleas
ant about him and then he wonders why
you dont have her of tcner to dinner
He is surprised that women spend so
much money on dress and jet he decline
to show the bill for his last springs over
coat >
coatHe
He thinks that a womans place is at
homo and while he emphasizes this ha
doesnt apply it to a man
He thinks man was made firstbccause ha
would then bs able to set an example td
women and ho did and she had to walK
out of Paradise and her only consolation
was that she could say 1 told you so
After all men are not so very bad that is
to say thoy are not as bad as women
At least thatVthe opinion of Bab
tTSDEll A rHETTT BOXXET rAIE SCHEDULE
The bonnets of tho season are excessively of advertising rates such as Tn Cxzrnn
small as far as their sire goes and expres adhares to treating every man alike Is bet
slvely large us far as the bill goes Girls ter < n high rates cut in two fee tail
with that
over twentytwo are a coquetry benefit i
is charming assuming tho small bonnets J OFFATOCITE CCSXOJCE1WL
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